Since 1962, a sweeping life-sized Nativity Scene — depicting numerous figures, but focused on the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph and, beginning on Christmas Eve, the infant Jesus — has been one ...

My family’s Nativity scene, like so many others that will appear during the holiday season, has some notable inaccuracies. It portrays a fair-skinned holy family, not a Middle Eastern one.

Senator Maurizio Gasparri of the co-ruling Forza Italia party said the nativity scene “offends all those who always had respect and devotion for the Holy Family.” ...

To decry the nativity scene, however, is to deny the centuries-long history of artists depicting the Holy Family in Bethlehem — located in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in Palestine — as ...

Pope Francis said today that the Vatican’s Nativity scene this year should compel people to think of the Holy Land — both of Christ’s birth in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago and also of the ...

Nativity scenes show us the loving parents we all need ... churches with images of a perfect family—the holy family, with a doting Mary and Joseph leaning over the baby in the manger, ...

Footage shows the manger scene with the Holy Family, but Mary has not given birth yet to baby Jesus. Rainwater also trickled down leaks in the roof made of metal sheets without a ceiling.

A Living Nativity will take place 5:30-7:30 p.m. Dec. 20-21, offering visitors a recreation of the Holy Night at the church, 305 E. Anapamu St. The event is free to attend.

A view of Nativity Scene, crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, with Baby Jesus' crib covered by a Palestinian kaffiyeh donated by delegates of the Palestinian Embassy to the Holy See, in ...